Hour 20. A Closer Look at jQuery
What You’ll Learn in This Hour
• Including jQuery in your pages
• jQuery’s $(document).ready handler
• Selecting page elements
• Working with HTML content
• Showing and hiding elements
• Animating elements
• Command chaining
• Handling events
• Using jQuery for Ajax applications
Many JavaScript libraries are available, but jQuery is arguably the most popular and also the most extensible. A huge number of developers contribute open source plug-ins for jQuery, and you can find a suitable plug-in for almost any application you might have. The wide range of plug-ins and the simple syntax make jQuery such a great library. In this hour you learn the basics of jQuery and get a taste of how powerful it is.
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